(Minghui.org) With the new year just around the corner, Falun Dafa practitioners in Toronto gathered outside the iconic City Hall on December 18, 2021 to pay respect and to wish the founder of the practice, Master Li Hongzhi, a Happy New Year! They said they felt especially honored to follow Master and many remarked that their New Year’s resolution would be to practice cultivation more solidly and to save even more sentient beings!

Practitioners in Toronto wish Master Happy New Year!

Practitioners in the Tian Guo Marching Band wish Master Li Happy New Year!

Practitioners who participate in truth clarification sites wish Master Li Happy New Year!

Practitioners who clarify the truth to people at Niagara Falls wish Master Happy New Year!

Young practitioners wish Master Happy New Year!

Young practitioners wish Master Happy New Year!

It is an Honor to Follow Master in Fa Rectification

Liao Hong (first on right) and her family wish Master Li Happy New Year!

Liao Hong began practicing Falun Dafa in 1996, 25 years ago. “My entire family has been blessed by Dafa and I feel especially honored to follow Master in Fa rectification,” she said.

“When I visited family in China in 1996 a relative told me about Dafa. When I read Zhuan Falun the first time, I thought, ‘This book is great, this is what I want.’”

Since childhood Liao Hong suffered from many ailments. She took sick leave every week as a student. “Before I turned 30, I had old age sicknesses such as bone spurs, insomnia and so on. After I started reading Zhuan Falun, Master purified my body. In the process, I felt terrible as if I was severely ill.”

Large bruises appeared on her lumbar and cervical areas where she had bone spurs. “Master pushed out all the bad things from my body. I was in so much pain that the first time I read Zhuan Falun, I read it while lying down. Yet I could not put the book down. I just wanted to keep on reading,” she said.

When she finished reading the book, her body was cleansed. “My body felt unusually light and I was free of illness. I felt as if I was floating when I climbed up seven floors to visit friends and family and did not feel tired at all. All my health problems went away.” She has continued practicing ever since.

“My family of seven started to practice Dafa at the same time. My mother, older sister and her husband, my younger brother and his wife, me and my 11-year-old nephew. Now, my grandson Ning Zixiang who is five years old does the sitting meditation every day. He can meditate for one hour. Thank you Master!” Liao Hong said.

Liao Hong’s five year old grandson, Ning Zixiang, meditates for one hour every day.

“In the early period, it was just personal cultivation and things were simple. We made sure to study the Fa and do the exercises every day. Every day we read three lectures of Zhuan Falun. Back in those days, I often felt like the sun was always shining brightly and there wasn’t a cloud in sight. It was wonderful!”

We switched to Fa rectification cultivation after July 20, 1999. “Practitioners outside China started a media company to clarify the facts and expose the persecution. I was fortunate to be involved in it since the beginning and I continue to be part of this project.”

In conclusion, Liao Hong said, “I am grateful for Master’s arrangement so that I can cultivate and validate the Fa through the media project. I learned that as long as my cultivation is up to standard and I have the heart to save people, Dafa will give me wisdom and the capability to fulfill my mission. Everything is done by Master but he has given us the opportunity to establish our mighty virtue. Words cannot express my gratitude. I can only cultivate myself well, and work harder so as not to let Master down.”

Accomplishing My Mission to Assist Master in Saving People

Zeng Hui wishes Master Happy New Year!

Zeng Hui said she witnessed her secondary school principal regain her health through practicing Dafa. The principal did her job well and many students she taught scored near the top in the country’s examinations. She was respected and loved by students and parents. “However her heavy workload caused her to suffer from severe heart problems, shoulder and throat inflammations, kidney stones, gall stones, swollen kidneys, and other ailments. She was in a lot of pain and had to take large amounts of medication every day.”

“One time, she had surgery to remove her gallbladder. The hospital warned several times that her life was in danger. One student’s parents gave her a copy of the book Zhuan Falun and taught her the Falun Gong exercises. Three months later, all her illnesses were gone. Many people around her witnessed her miraculous recovery and began to practice Falun Dafa themselves. I was one of them.”

“I was weak and had had many ailments since childhood. When I went to secondary school, I went to the hospital every two or three days due to the stress from study. After I began practicing Dafa, my health improved. Master unlocked my wisdom and I understood the principle that whatever is meant to be will come naturally if I don’t have any pursuit.” Zeng Hui was top in her entire school and easily got into a prestigious university in Southern China with the second highest score in the entire province in a single subject. Upon graduation, she got a job in a global top 500 company.

She moved overseas due to family reasons in 2005. In 2019, she began to go to Niagara Falls to clarify the truth and tell people about Falun Dafa, and now, three years later, continues to do so. She said, “Practitioners in the Niagara falls truth clarification team show people the beauty of Dafa rain or shine. We work selflessly and inspire one another to improve in cultivation.”

“There are very strict requirements on us at Niagara Falls because it is a world class tourist destination. It was quite difficult when we first established this truth clarification site.”

She said that one time, a police officer came while they were doing the exercises. He stood a distance away observing. Groups of tourists came to learn the exercises, one after another and the policeman watched for several hours. As the practitioners packed up that evening, the police officer came and helped them. He said, “I saw everything you did today. Falun Dafa is wonderful!”

According to Zeng Hui, practitioners drove more than four hours to and fro for four months from June 25 to October 30. In over 100 days, they distributed around 30,000 fliers, tens of thousands of origami lotus flowers, and collected nearly 10,000 signatures on a petition to end the persecution in China. More than 1,000 people learned the exercises at the site or online.

“I saw from these tourists the subtle changes in people’s understanding of Dafa compared to the situation years ago. Some said Dafa made them feel a divine calling; some said Dafa disciples are divine messengers bringing blessings to people; some said you are the only hope in leading the world toward a positive direction; while others clasped their palms in front of their chest in a gesture to express their respect and support. Accomplishing our mission to help Master save people is every practitioner’s responsibility. Thank you Master!”

Constantly Reminding Myself to Be Diligent in My Practice

Jiang Fan and his wife wish Master Happy New Year!

Jiang Fan, an electrical engineering professor started to practice Falun Dafa in Singapore in January 1998. He moved to Canada in 2002.

He said, “I have been cultivating for around 24 years. When I was in Singapore, I took medication for a month to treat my cold and fever but it did not help. I thought about practicing qigong. As I did not know if there were any Falun Dafa practitioners in Singapore, I studied the teachings and did the exercises through watching Master’s taped lectures and reading the book Falun Gong. I felt Falun spinning and soon recovered. My body felt light. This boosted my confidence. I attended the New York Fa Conference in March that year and heard Master lecture in person. In just two months, my understanding of the practice changed from health and fitness to cultivation.”

Jiang Fan was a qigong fan when he was a university student and read many qigong books. He was deeply interested in certain mysterious phenomena in qigong but did not understand what they were. “After practicing Falun Gong, I found answers to my previous queries one by one in the teachings. I came to truly understand the purpose of being human is to return to one’s origin and reach consummation.”

His wife and parents-in-law also took up the practice. “In August 1998, our whole family attended the Singapore experience sharing conference. I spoke at the conference as a new practitioner who had only began to practice a few months ago. I had the honor to listen to Master give a lecture once again. After the conference, Master took photos with practitioners in every practice site and shook hands with everyone. Master said to me: ‘study the Fa more’ when he shook my hand. I felt a huge energy of compassion go into my body.”

Jiang Fan participated in many projects after the Chinese Communist Party began to suppress the practice in July 1999. From making phone calls to China, clarifying the truth on the internet, going to tourist spots to clarify the truth, joining the media and coordinator of the Toronto Tian Guo Marching Band.

The pandemic broke out in 2020. For a long time, Toronto was in a state of lockdown and there were strict regulations limiting the number people in outdoor gatherings. “Yet practitioners successfully held 6 grand parades after obtaining approval from the police. The parade was held in the city’s busiest commercial areas every time. In November this year, the Tian Guo Marching Band took part in Christmas parades in London, Ontario, Georgetown and Hamilton and were warmly welcomed by spectators. Organizers of the parades in London and Hamilton sent us letters thanking us for participating,” he said.

To conclude, Jiang Fan said that he encountered many tests in his 24 years of cultivation. When he slacked off, Master often gave him hints. When he was diligent, he could feel Master’s encouragement. In this final moment of Fa rectification, he reminds himself constantly to be more diligent and put more effort in doing the three things so as not to let Master down for his compassionate salvation.